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Re:Facebook fought SEC to keep Mobile risks hidden before IPO by asadotzler on Wednesday October 10, 2012 @03:34AM (#4635444)
Why they chose to quote two random individual investors, I cannot say. What did they add to the story?
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Re:Facebook fought SEC to keep Mobile risks hidden before IPO by andrewljohnson on Wednesday October 10, 2012 @03:38AM (#4635451)
Man on the street quotes give readers a personal connection to the story.

It's similar to the fact that if you tell someone a hundred people were killed in a bomb blast, they will brush it off. But if you describe the tragedy of a single victim, they will be crushed with feeling.

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